Best Bets For Beating Slumlords and Blight:  Landlord Training, Collaboration and Enforcement

CPEC Issues New Policy Report for Connecticut Cities and Towns

Knowing that problem properties depress tax revenues, strain public services, and demand constant and expensive attention from local government agencies, CPEC has prepared an easy-to-read primer for municipal officials and community groups that want to combat slumlords and blight and rejuvenate their neighborhoods.  The policy report is released just as a new state law takes effect that lets cities and towns require landlords to register with them, relieving municipal officials of the difficulties of locating landlords of problem properties. 

CPEC’s “An Ounce of Prevention: How Cities and Towns Can Keep Landlords from Becoming Slumlords” features dozens of little-used laws, tools and programs that Connecticut cities and towns can use to discourage slumlords and support law-abiding landlords.  It reports on what some Connecticut communities are doing to eradicate slumlords.  For a dose of inspiration, it also highlights some of the successful anti-slumlord programs undertaken in other communities across the country.  The keys to preventing blight properties, CPEC finds, are education, collaboration and swift and certain enforcement.